Guardians of the Chiss Key (Clone Wars Secret Missions, 4) by Ryder Windham

Author:Ryder Windham [Windham, Ryder]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction
ISBN: 9780448457451
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-03-15T07:00:00+00:00

Lalo Gunn knew it would have been a mistake to try running from the Duros bounty hunter, which was why she had taken the precaution of paying the tavern’s assistant bartender a generous fee in exchange for concealing her in the tavern’s storeroom. Hunkered down behind two large crates filled with nonperishable food, Gunn aimed her blaster at the room’s only door.

Although the storeroom’s lights were off, she could see a sliver of light along the door’s left side. The assistant bartender, a Xexto, was supposed to rap four times on the door after the bounty hunter left, then he would enter the storeroom to show he was alone. If the Xexto thought Gunn was in danger, he would knock only three limes as a warning,

If the Xexto tried to double-cross her and sent the bounty hunter into the storeroom, she would do her best to make them both regret it.

Almost thirty minutes passed before Gunn heard four raps against the other side of the door. Her finger tensed slightly against her blaster’s trigger as the door slid open to reveal the Xexto’s spindly silhouette, illuminated by the light from the hallway behind him. A four-armed alien with a small head that bobbed at the top of a long, thin neck, the Xexto cautiously stepped into the room and was reaching for a switch on the wall when Gunn said, “Don’t touch the lights — and hands where I can see them.”

The Xexto lifted all four hands. “The Duros is gone,” he said, “along with his fishy friend.”

Gunn didn’t budge from her position as she said, “How long?”

“About ten minutes. They both left in a freighter. I watched them board. Saw the freighter lift off.”

“Turn on the lights and step back through the door.”

The Xexto chuckled as he lowered his hands and tapped the light switch, then walked back through the doorway to stand in the outer hallway. Gunn lowered her blaster but kept it in her grip as she eased herself out from behind the crates. With her free hand, she tossed a credit chip through the doorway to the Xexto. The Xexto caught the chip with his upper left hand and said, “You keep throwing money at me, and I’ll keep helping you. Something else you need?”

“An introduction,” Gunn said. “I want to meet your local starship dealer. I’m in a buying mood for a rattletrap.”

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